[Coin-discuss] Performance of CoinMemcpyN()

[Lou Hafer]

	I think the issue here is more the quality of compiler optimization.
To take CoinMemcpyN as the example, what you're seeing is an explicit 8-fold
loop unroll to explicitly expose potential parallelism, in case the compiler
might not find it on its own. One would hope that memcpy on a given
architecture would be finely tuned for that architecture, but that's not
always the case.

	Perhaps one of the early developers remembers which architecture
and/or compiler prompted this bit of code?
	
							Lou